'Since the Covid virus has a tendency to mutate, we can continue to expect new variants of the virus to emerge and keep circulating and recirculating in the communities.'
'It did not vote against America, or for Russia.' 'If we had voted for the American motion, it would have spoilt our relationship with Russia without any change in Russia's behaviour.'
'While in Chennai, I play alone. It gets lonely at times because you wish for someone to play with you,' says Joshna Chinnappa, India's number one squash player.
Former India hockey captain Vasudevan Bhaskaran shares his Olympics experiences with Shobha Warrier.
IIT-Madras director on the need for foreigners at IIT.
'No society becomes democratic merely by holding an election,' says T N Seshan.
'Since the party is at a stage when things are very bad, this is the best time to experiment.'
Mani Ratnam talks about his filmmaking process, and his love for songs.
R Parasu Raman, chairman, CII -- southern region and chairman and managing director, Novar India Ltd, speaks to Shobha Warrier on the Budget.
'The China opportunity, the digital opportunity and the end of geography opportunity are the three pieces of luck India got due to Covid.'
Veteran actor Sarath Kumar talks about how he's heading in a different cinematic direction.
National Award winning director S P Jananathan talks about his new film, E.
'Everyone has prejudged him, and they have already convicted the Shankaracharya. The press has convicted him. The politicians have convicted him,' says Cho Ramaswamy.
'Has the Supreme Court ever said that the Preamble is the basic structure of the Constitution?'
'This obsession with 'one' is not good for a country like India.'
Globally, IT and automotive together are a $4.5 trillion industry, and telematics forms a big part of this. Telematics is set to grow in a big way and can create a million-plus jobs in India over the next 5 years, says Prof Sadagopan.
'Nobody is talking about the inequality that is going to come.'
Revathy Varma talks about her first film, June R.
Former India hockey captain and coach Vasudevan Bhaskaran calls for more transparency in the IHF's functioning.
When you go to US B-schools, you find that most of the student getting high GPAs are Indians. So, we had to do a different mix in order to make sure we had a good mix of people.
Madhavan's first comedy, the Tamil film Nala Damayanti, is a big hit. The actor couldn't be happier.
'If you look at the entire 60-day period of March and April, you see that temperatures were soaring more than 3.5 degrees Celsius above the maximum temperature.' 'Normally, events like this happen only for a short period.'
'India is looking up as the future of the world in many ways,' says IIT-M Director Dr M S Ananth.
R V Rajan, chief managing director, Anugraha Madison, speaks on how rural India has changed over the last two decades.
'When they completely surrender to the BJP or the BJP has completely taken over the party, what's the point in the AIADMK surviving and doing business in the state?'
'They have been pursuing their agenda of bulldozing everything and everybody on their way.' 'They suddenly see Rahul Gandhi standing in front of them without fear and fighting against them aggressively.' 'He doesn't show any compromise in his attitude towards fascism.'
'Yesterday, I was at a seed meeting where we gave outright grants up to Rs 20 lakhs or loans up to Rs 50 lakhs for new start-ups under 2 years.'
His first two films were a hit. Srikkant is now awaiting the fate of his third release.
'...for at least 6 months and give them peace of mind to get back on their feet.' 'Entrepreneurs are suffocating and not able to run their companies peacefully.'
'There are many new elements in the film, like spacecraft, the alien,' Ravi K Chandran on Rakesh Roshan's Koi Mil Gaya.
'How long can you keep a person in jail using false cases?'
Veteran journalist Cho Ramaswamy says the Tamil Nadu police wouldn't have acted without solid evidence against the seer.
'When I said the Gandhi family had to step aside, it was because we have consistently seen that the public has not accepted them.'